. The Tasting Palette .

On this national day break, my family and I headed to lunch at Crystal Jade Golden Palace, Paragon, with our friend from Beijing. Though I made reservations, we still had to wait for 10 minutes before we were led to our table. The restaurant was just too busy and crowded on a public holiday. I understood why when the food was being served to us. This is not your typical Crystal Jade outlet where you are served mediocre and expensive "zhu cao tan food" in J's words. This one had a couple of interesting dishes which made me changed my opinion about the Crystal Jade group of restaurants.

We ordered 3 dim sum dishes while the rest were dishes to share. The dim sum dishes that I chose was the more unique ones that cannot be found at other restaurants. The first is the one below: pan seared goose liver wrapped in layers and layers of maggi-like noodles pastry. This was really special. It was really crispy and when you got to the center, you could taste the juiciness of the goose liver.

Goose liver dim sum

We also ordered deep fried silver f ish though I thought that the ones from East Ocean taste much better. This one was slightly bland. The braised duck below was not bad too and it was served with vinegar sauce. Interesting huh? plus I generally like vinegar in most of my food.

My favourite dish of the meal ought to be this one: deep fried prawns with salted egg. Sounds dubious? Maybe. But it taste great. See it's golden yellow colour? The salted egg flavours the prawn and this is one prawn that you wouldn't want to dip in mayonnaise.

Prawns deep fried in salted egg

The next dish was fish served on a field of fried mint in butter. I would not talk about the fish because it's pretty simple fried fish. What made this dish unique was the field of mint that the fish were lying on. The mint leaves were pan fried with lots and lots of butter- so much so that you can't really taste the strong flavour of the mint, but only feel it's crispy-ness and the rich butter taste. I know it's really sinful, but I can't help eating most of it.

Fried fish on a bed of crispy mint leaves

The last memorable dish was a dish that I first tasted during a trip to Macau. This dish is called Portuguese chicken. I was pleasantly surprised when I first tasted it. This time was no different. This is a little like curry served with a deep fried sweet bun. Lovely and different I would say.

Portuguese chicken

I know this is slightly out of point, but I kind of miss North Indian food! The garlic naan with daal. Hope Grace manages to get her share of Indian food and some for me too!

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